Raymond C. LaPerche Elementary School

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to all our faculty @SmithfieldSchls. Thank you for all you do!

Happy Administrative Assistants' Day To those who work behind the scenes as part of our Smithfield Public Schools Team, Thank You! @SmithfieldSchls

First graders at LaPerche are completing a unit on graphing. They chose a question and came up with three possible answers, and then surveyed the class. They took the results and created their own bar graphs. First graders can make and read bar graphs!

Wonderful musical concerts at our elementary schools last night during Teaching & Learning Night. Great job to all of our students, K-5, and to teachers Jenn Shafer & Sandy Barrette. @SmithfieldSchls

We are ready for tonight's Teaching and Learning Night at our elementary schools. @SmithfieldSchls

Today third-grade students at LaPerche created a circuit with a battery, LED light, and aluminum foil before experimenting with a Makey-Makey. Makey-Makeys are circuits allowing students to turn paper clips or any conductor into tools to play the piano on the Makey-Makey app! The students practice critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity throughout our computer science lessons. All crucial skills needed to succeed in the 21st century! Way to go, third grade. Keep creating and stay curious!

Teaching & Learning Night is being celebrated at each of the elementary schools Wed. night @SmithfieldSchls

These 5th graders are highly competitive when it comes to math. Math Madness & the Math Olympiad came to the elementary schools through District Math Coordinator Wendy Phillips. @SmithfieldSchls @SmithfieldSuper

We are investing in interactive technologies to promote a K-12 continuum of computer science skills. These first graders are developing codes. Our elementary & middle schools are part of our "3 to CTE" initiative @SmithfldSchls.

March Madness - Smithfield PD v. Smithfield Fire BBall Game @SHS Friday @ 7 p.m. Please support this fun event benefitting town residents. Thank you.

Recognizing students who go above & beyond to help create an inclusive community. Thank you Elijah & Julia @SHSSentinels @SmithfieldSchols. "Catching kids" doing great work for others. #community #students #unsungheroes

In first grade at LaPerche today, we had an amazing social skills lesson from Everyday Speech about using positive self talk. Positive self talk means telling ourselves positive or happy messages to give us confidence to get through hard times. This helps us grow into a positive mindset. Today the first graders created moves to go with their positive self talk. They said things such as I am a hard worker! I can be myself! I've got this! I believe in myself! Let's all try positive self talk to reset the negative thoughts in our brains!

In kindergarten, writing instruction includes direct instruction. The teacher provides instruction about what type of letter begins the sentence, using a finger space between words, tapping out unknown words, using lowercase instead of uppercase letters throughout the sentence, and adding something at the end of end of the sentence (the periods!) Kindergarten students used their tools, including their vocabulary journal to determine how to spell the word instrument and reminded each other about all of the important parts of writing. Kindergarten students are hard workers!

In preschool today, students were working hard during center time. In one center, students used stampers to create masterpieces. Stamping helps them with their fine motor skills. At another center students were mixing colors to form new colors. Students were mixing blue and yellow to make green, red and blue to make purple and more. They used eyedroppers to pick up the paint and drop it drip by drip working on fine motor skills. In a third center students were using shapes stickers to create new objects. Students used the book Color Farm for ideas. In every class at LaPerche, students learn by doing!

LaPerche Teachers are masters at combining the fun of a holiday with academic learning. Students in kindergarten were writing about what they would do with a pot of gold, rolling green dice and adding the two numbers, searching for heart words within pot of gold, ripping construction paper or painting to create a rainbow and more! The activities worked on fine motor skills, handwriting, combining numbers, narrative writing and more! What a lucky bunch of students! We are so thankful for our endless family volunteers, who supported every center! We could not make this happen without you!

Third graders at LaPerche are learning how to write code through our partnership with Rhode Island College. Students were introduced to the program Scratch Jr. and challenged to create their own characters and scene to make an animated dance party. The creativity was amazing!

Sensory Friendly Story Time sponsored by SSELAC this Saturday

SHS is performing Legally Blond this weekend. Join us at one of the 3 performances: Friday, March 10, at 7 PM; Saturday, March 11, at 7 PM; and Sunday, March 12, at 2 PM. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $15 or online at https://our.show/shslegblonde for $12.

Our district, Math Coordinator, Wendy Phillips, stopped by LaPerche and taught a lesson in fifth grade today. The elementary schools are piloting two math programs, Eureka 2 and Illustrative Math. Teachers from the math team are piloting both programs and will make a decision which one we will adopt next year. Students had the opportunity to solve independently, talk with partners and complete a gallery walk so they can view each other's work and plan for solving the problem. Student and teacher feedback are vital before program adoption.

The SHS Parent Council is hosting a FUNDrive drive at the high school on Saturday, March 11th, from 8:30-11:30 AM. Pack up your goods and come on by!